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Emergency Transit Assistance:
Federal Funding for Recent Disasters, and Options for the Future
GAO-08-243: Published: Feb 15, 2008. Publicly Released: Feb 15, 2008.
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Major disasters can disrupt transit operations, destroy vehicles and facilities, and impede the ability of people to reach essential relief and medical services and return to their homes and jobs. GAO determined (1) the federal role in assisting transit agencies after a major disaster; (2) the amounts, sources, and uses of federal disaster assistance for transit since 1998; (3) the factors that affected the timeliness and effectiveness of transit assistance after the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes; and (4) additional options for providing assistance to transit after a major disaster. GAO reviewed laws, regulations, and guidance; analyzed DOT and FEMA data; and interviewed officials with FEMA, DOT, state and local agencies, and others.
The federal government provides transit services and assists transit agencies after a major disaster, primarily through two federal agencies--the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA). FEMA is authorized to provide emergency transportation services under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act). FTA administers federal support for transit but does not have a specific ongoing program or funding to help restore transit after disasters. FEMA and FTA have provided approximately $5.0 billion in disaster assistance to fund transit services and assist transit agencies since 1998, primarily through supplemental appropriations. The agencies provided nearly $4.7 billion to New York City after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, primarily to rebuild destroyed transit infrastructure, and another $232 million after the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes, largely to provide transit services for displaced populations. FEMA and FTA have also provided at least $51 million for other disasters since 1998. FEMA's database for its Public Assistance program does not have the capability to sort transit projects from other projects. GAO took steps to identify this funding, but the information presented should be considered minimum amounts. Additional funds may have been dedicated for transit purposes. GAO believes the magnitude of uncertainty is small compared with the $5.0 billion in assistance for transit. After the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes, FEMA and FTA faced challenges that impeded both the timeliness and effectiveness of their assistance to transit. Although the Stafford Act authorizes federal assistance to meet emergency needs, neither FEMA nor FTA had mechanisms to provide transit funding immediately after the disasters. FEMA also lacked guidance on the types of transit services it would fund and criteria for determining the duration of funding. As a result, funding approvals after the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes took from 1 month to as long as 4 months, and FEMA ended funding even though transit agencies in Louisiana and Mississippi believed that they had continuing needs. Additional options exist--at the state, local, and federal levels--for providing assistance to transit after a major disaster. At the state and local levels, mutual aid agreements between states and others can direct needed resources to transit agencies following a disaster. Existing programs and temporary authorities that Congress had provided to DOT also suggest options, including giving FTA permanent authority to allow transit agencies to use existing grant funds for disaster recovery. As another option, Congress could establish an emergency relief program for FTA, similar to the DOT program for highways, or expand the scope of the highway program to include transit. Such a program could include "quick release"--a mechanism used to approve and release emergency highway funds within 1 to 2 days. Each of these options has advantages, such as expedited release and better targeting of funds, and consequences, such as potentially increased costs to the federal government.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Open
Comments: DHS has not yet acted on this recommendation.
Recommendation: To promote timely and effective disaster assistance for public transit, the Secretary of Homeland Security should direct the Administrator of FEMA to develop guidance or regulations outlining the types of operating assistance for transit that FEMA will or will not fund following a disaster and criteria for determining the duration of funding for these services.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security
Status: Open
Comments: DHS has not yet acted on this recommendation.
Recommendation: To promote timely and effective disaster assistance for public transit, the Secretary of Homeland Security should direct the Administrator of FEMA to draft prescripted mission assignments for public transportation services to provide a frame of reference for FEMA, FTA, and state transportation departments in developing mission assignments after future disasters. The prescripted mission assignments could reflect FEMA's guidance and criteria for funding public transportation services, reduce ambiguity, and potentially expedite their issuance so that agencies that are relying on FEMA funding could begin their disaster recovery.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In 2008, GAO identified the need for more timely and effective assistance to transit providers after major disasters. Specifically, GAO found that although the Stafford Act authorizes federal assistance to meet emergency needs, FEMA and FTA lack mechanisms to direct funding to transit providers immediately after these disasters. GAO reported that options existed, including increasing FTA's authority to provide immediate financial assistance after a disaster, modeled after a similar Department of Transportation program for highways. Therefore, GAO recommended that the Secretary of Transportation evaluate the feasibility of options to increase FTA's authority to provide immediate financial assistance, and to seek legislative authority as appropriate. The Department agreed with the recommendation, and in its FY 2012 and 2013 budget proposals, requested funds for a new Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program, similar to the highway program, to support the immediate needs of public transportation providers in the wake of disasters, citing GAO's report as the basis for its request. In March 2012, the Senate approved S.1813, creating a Public Transportation Emergency Relief Program. As a result of GAO's work, both the Administration and Congress have moved to address an important gap in the ability of the federal government to aid communities after disasters.
Recommendation: To enable FTA to provide more direct and timely assistance to transit agencies following a disaster, the Secretary of Transportation should evaluate the feasibility of options to increase FTA's authority to provide immediate financial assistance, and seek legislative authority as appropriate.
Agency Affected: Department of Transportation
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17 And he appointed Matthanias, his uncle, in his stead: and called his name Sedecias. | 17 He made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah. |
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The fight against ecstasy: as the drug spreads beyond raves, everyone from teen users to Congress is trying to undercut the high. (National).
BROWN COUNTY, S.D., IS A PLACE OF rolling hills and farmland. Many of the kids come from families that make their money raising corn, soybeans, and cattle. The nearest big city, Sioux Falls, is a couple of hours away, although many local people will tell you that Aberdeen, the county seat, where most people in the county live, is a big city. Its population: about 25,000.But Brown County is not idyllic. There are plenty of ways for kids to get into trouble, smoking pot and drinking among them. So last spring, when a bunch of teens got together for an outdoor dance at the county fairgrounds, parents were happy to see that there appeared to be no marijuana and no drinking.
Well, except for the water. The kids did seem to be going through a lot of water from the bottles they carried as they danced into the night, candy necklaces swinging and glowsticks carving colored arcs out of the darkness.
With the hindsight of half a year, things look different to Brown County now. "Our intelligence tells us that that was one of our first raves," says Kim Dorsett, the deputy state's attorney who handles juvenile crime in the county. And it took place, she says, "pretty much right under law-enforcement's nose."
A rave--as teens know, but many parents across the country still do not--is a dance fueled by a synthetic ingredient: Ecstasy. Once largely limited to the clubs of big cities, the drug has spread nationwide to towns and suburbs, to various ethnicities, and to younger kids. The leading survey of teen drug use, done by the University of Michigan, shows Ecstasy is booming as other drug use holds steady (see graph, page 11). The survey found that 8.2 percent of high school seniors used Ecstasy in 2000, a rate that more than doubled in just two years. The director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Alan Leshner, has called Ecstasy use "truly a national public health crisis."
Now medical evidence suggests that the mildly hallucinogenic stimulant may be far less safe than many proponents believe. Spurred by the news, government officials and anti-drug groups are preparing a counterattack.
In congressional hearings earlier this year, former teen users testified that Ecstasy had wrecked their lives. The Ecstasy Prevention Act of 2001 is now making its way through both the House and Senate. It would provide $23.5 million for Ecstasy research, prevention, and teen education efforts next year, while establishing a special task force. A new federal guideline put in place this year calls for a five-year prison sentence for a person who sells 800 Ecstasy pills. The standard used to be 11,000 pills.
In the near future, teens can expect to start seeing a new advertising campaign, also featuring former users. And officials are trying to alert parents and teachers to the warning signs, enlisting them as scouts in the fight.
That the job won't be easy becomes clear when you talk to people like Dayna Moore, 16, a former user from suburban Long Island, N.Y., who went before the Senate Government Affairs Committee.
When she began taking the drug just before she turned 15, Dayna says, she had no idea what lay ahead. Within a year, she had dropped out of high school and was stealing money from her family and friends to pay for the drug. "I wanted no part of anything else except doing Ecstasy," says Dayna, now at a Phoenix House drug-treatment center.
Her mother, she says, figured she might be drinking alcohol or smoking pot, but never imagined the problem was worse. "Just because your child's not going out to raves and clubs every night, doesn't mean that they're not using Ecstasy," Dayna says. "I used to use it in my own room."
Even the new director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Asa Hutchinson, who has made fighting so-called club drugs a priority, learned the hard way just how treacherous the terrain can be. Earlier this year, Hutchinson said his 18-year-old son, Seth, persuaded him to go to a rave so that he could see that not everyone was using drugs. But hours before father and son were to show up, law-enforcement officials suggested a change of plans: They were about to arrest the rave promoter that night and charge him with distributing Ecstasy.
Just keeping an eye on raves is no longer enough. In recent months, Dorsett has been traveling to rural South Dakota schools so small that the senior classes number no more than 20. Even there she has found evidence that the Ecstasy culture has arrived, including students wearing pacifiers and sugar-candy necklaces. The necklaces are sometimes used to hide pills, and the pacifiers can help relieve one of the drug's side effects, jaw clenching. The water bottles seen at the fairgrounds dance were another sign, since dehydration is a major downside, sometimes a deadly one, of Ecstasy use.
But much of America is still behind the learning curve. "Our community really doesn't realize there's a problem yet," Dorsett says. "The teachers have no idea what they're looking at, and neither do the parents."
Ecstasy is a relatively new arrival to the drug world. It is the nickname for a methamphetamine known as MDMA, and is sold in the form of pills that can cost about $20 each. Many are smuggled in from Europe; illegal imports have increased by more than 400 percent in the past three years.
The high lasts perhaps six hours, during which users may feel freed from their inhibitions and suffused with love toward others. "You kind of get this warm feeling, and you just have this big smile," says Amy Maloney, 21, who is now in rehabilitation at a Phoenix House in Santa Ana, Calif. "Everything you touch just feels so awesome."
Such descriptions are common, and they demonstrate one of the biggest challenges facing people who are combating Ecstasy. Among many who use it, Ecstasy draws, if you'll excuse the expression, rave reviews.
The problem goes beyond the high of the drug. Much as cocaine once did, Ecstasy has gotten a reputation as an intensely pleasurable drug with little health risk. "Ecstasy has enjoyed a free ride across this country," says Steve Dnistrian, executive vice president of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
In fact, its safety is very much in question. Hospitals have reported a growing number of Ecstasy-related cases in their emergency rooms, up 58 percent between 1999 and 2000, to 4,511 incidents a year. While most users may steer clear of the hospital, recent research has linked regular Ecstasy use to potentially permanent changes in the brain.
"This is different," says Dr. Terry L. Horton, national medical director for Phoenix House, a nonprofit organization devoted to treatment and prevention of substance abuse. "This drug actually goes in and damages very sensitive parts of the brain that are involved in core emotions and memory and some higher-level functions."
Some experts say they see signs that Ecstasy use may soon begin to drop, pointing to surveys that show an increase in the number of young people who now associate the drug with health risk.
But others warn that the message has to be carefully tailored to be successful. Among them is former user Maloney, who is planning to go back to college to be a teacher, like her parents.
"Teenagers are not going to listen to medical doctors," Maloney says. "You've got to hear it from someone your own age, someone you can relate to."
FOCUS: Government, Doctors, and Former Users Unite to Rein in Teen Ecstasy Use
To help students understand why there is a new effort by government and medical authorities to fight the growing use by teens of the drug popularly known as Ecstasy.
Discussion Questions:
* What do you think it would take to convince a majority of American teenagers that Ecstasy is a dangerous drug?
* Some state laws require automatic jail terms for possession of illegal drugs. Do you support such laws?
* Were you surprised to learn that 80 percent of teen deaths involve alcohol consumption? Do you think this information would cause most teens to alter their drinking behavior?
Before Reading: Ask how many students have heard about Ecstasy. Next, poll those who have heard about the drug. How many believe Ecstasy is dangerous?
Critical Thinking: Note that hospitals report an increasing number of Ecstasy-related emergency-room admissions (see also page TE 5). Ask students why, if the dangers of Ecstasy are becoming apparent, does the drug have a reputation among teens for posing little health risk?
Young people often discount dangers that seem unlikely, or that might affect them at some time in the future. Discuss what the article reveals about the dangers of Ecstasy. Do these dangers seem remote? How would students equate the danger of Ecstasy use with other types of risky behavior, such as drunk driving?
Debate: "The Fight Against Ecstasy" reports that the Ecstasy culture includes students wearing pacifiers and sugar-candy necklaces. Ask students to imagine they are producing a rock concert. A co-producer asks that they set a strict rule: No one may attend the concert if he or she is dressed in Ecstasy-culture garb. Have students debate. Is one's dress a form of speech? Would such a dress rule violate the First Amendment guarantee of free speech?
Do students believe that Ecstasy-promoting garb increases the likelihood that young people will use Ecstasy?
Web Watch: See the National Institute on Drug Abuse at www.nida.nih.gov/ For an extensive list of PDF files on all aspects of drug abuse and crime, see virlib.ncjrs.org/DrugsAndCrime.asp
Though Ecstasy use is rising, alcohol remains the top teen drug by far. According to the latest University of Michigan study, 73.2 percent of high school seniors used alcohol in 2000, compared with 73.8 percent in 1999. Some students and experts say the abuse is out of hand.
"The prevalence of binge drinking in high school is of great concern," says Michael Windle, author of Alcohol Use Among Adolescents. "Over a third of teens recently polled say they've binge-drank in the last two weeks.... Eighty percent of teen deaths involve alcohol consumption--and unfortunately, it's not getting any better."
One new approach aims to change teens' perceptions of normal drinking behavior. The idea is to steer students away from excessive drinking by stressing that heavy drinkers are actually in the minority, and that most people drink only in moderation. Advocates say this method is better than using scare tactics such as displaying a crashed car or trying to stop people from drinking altogether. One such program at Northern Illinois University led to a 44 percent reduction in binge drinking.
Students Against Drunk Driving stresses that family communication is the key. Teens who spend more time talking with their parents are less likely to drink, a SADD study found.
In a survey by International Communications Research, 16 percent of students supported raising the drinking age from 21. Meanwhile, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism argues for stricter enforcement of existing drinking laws. "We can't ignore the dangers teens are facing," says George Dowdall, a sociology professor at St. Joseph's University. "Use is abuse, and we need to get our communities in motion."
Elizabeth Mayer
Percentage of high school seniors who said getting Ecstasy is easy (below in blue): '96 36.9% '97 38.8% '98 38.2% '99 40.1% '00 51.4% Note: Table made from pie chart. Increase in the percentage of seniors who have used these drugs, from 1996 to 2000: alcohol 1% marijuana 2% cocaine 2% amphetamines 11% Ecstasy 78% Note: Table made from pie chart.
ERIC NAGOURNEY is a staff editor for The New York Times.
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3 Brothers and sisters, carefully choose seven well-respected men from among you. They must be well-respected and endowed by the Spirit with exceptional wisdom. We will put them in charge of this concern. | 3 Brothers, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them |
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22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denieth the Father and the Son. | 22 Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he denies the Father and the Son. |
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Jay-Z releases his Official, "Creative Control", Mixtape Hosted by DJ Green Lantern. Roc Nation and Team Invasion do the damn thing and drop this official mixtape masterpiece, complete with trademark GL production, remixes, live appearances and never-before-heard music.
Before it was the mighty Neil Armstrong, DJ Green Lantern infamously toured with Jigga Man as his #1 on the 1's and 2's. In fact, around the time of his 2006 album "KINGDOM COME" Green & Jay had intended to drop "Presidential Invasion" — a promotional mixtape created while the two were touring Africa and promoting Jay's "The Diary of Jay-Z: Water for Life" conquest to aid African countries in the pursuit of clean water. That mixtape never materialized, and the hip-hop world was left waiting for that elusive Hova v. Evil Genius collaboration. Four years later — with the summer of 2010 as the backdrop, and Jay-Z's Roc Nation label and DJ Green Lantern's Team Invasion as the suppliers — S. Carter takes it to the next level with a new kind of CREATIVE CONTROL. Green and Jay do the damn thing and drop this official new mixtape masterpiece, complete with trademark GL production, remixes, live appearances and never-before-heard music.
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), better known by his stage name Jay-Z (sometimes stylized JAY Z), is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is one of the most financially successful hip-hop artists and entrepreneurs in America. In 2012, Forbes estimated Carter's net worth at nearly $500 million. He has sold approximately 50 million albums worldwide, while receiving 17 Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations. Consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all-time he was ranked #1 by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006. Two of his albums, Reasonable Doubt (1996) and The Blueprint (2001) are considered landmarks in the genre with both of them being ranked in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Jay-Z co-owns the 40/40 Club, is part-owner of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and is also co-creator of the line Rocawear. He is the former CEO of Def Jam Recordings, co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records, and the founder of Roc Nation. As an artist, he holds the record for most number one albums by a solo artist on the Billboard 200 with twelve. Jay-Z also has had four number ones on the Billboard Hot 100, one as lead artist. On December 11, 2009, Jay-Z was ranked as the 10th-Most Successful Artist of the 2000s by Billboard and ranking as the 5th Top Solo Male Artist and as the 4th Top Rapper behind Eminem, Nelly, and 50 Cent. He was also ranked the 88th-Greatest Artist of All Time by Rolling Stone. He married American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles in 2008. They have one daughter named Blue Ivy Carter, born in January 2012.
Jay-Z is originally from Marcy Houses, a housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. He and his three siblings were raised by their mother, Gloria Carter, after their father abandoned the family. He claims in his lyrics that in 1982, at the age of 12, he shot his older brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry. Carter attended Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn, along with future rapper AZ, until it was closed down. After that he attended George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School in downtown Brooklyn, with fellow future rappers The Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes, and Trenton Central High School in Trenton, New Jersey, but did not graduate. In his music he refers to having been involved in selling crack cocaine. He has also said he had been shot at three times during this time in his life.
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A man in a stolen car fleeing Roseville police Saturday evening crashed into another vehicle in St. Paul, fatally injuring a woman and seriously injuring her male companion, police said.
An 8-year-old boy, who was in the car with the suspect, also was taken to Regions Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to Roseville police.
The chase began around 7 p.m., police said, when officers responded to a report of a stolen car and a domestic assault near Hwy. 36 and Dale Street.
Police said they saw the suspect speeding away in the stolen car and began pursuing him, but backed off and ended the pursuit because of his "aggressive and dangerous driving."
The suspect was reportedly driving 90 miles an hour on Hwy. 36 shortly before the collision at the Larpenteur Avenue exit off Interstate 35E.
The man and woman, whose names have not yet been released, were taken to Regions Hospital, where the woman died, police said in a statement.
The injured man was listed in serious condition. Police said the boy's relationship to the suspect was not known.
The suspect, who has been taken into custody, was "only slightly wounded," police said, and initial reports indicated he was intoxicated.
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Opposing war, racism, sexism, climate change, economic injustice and high-stakes testing.
The brilliant and unsung Australian singer-songwriter Toni Childs wrote her new song 'Because You're Beautiful' after Eve Ensler, the author of the Vagina Monologues, asked her to create something that could inspire people to end violence against women and girls for all time. The resulting song may be as important as it is beautiful and haunting.
By the end of this year, the US Supreme Court is expected to decide whether or not colleges and universities can prioritize diversity through their admissions policy guidelines. The decision could pose a serious threat to campus diversity and undermine the quality of the educational experience for millions of students coast to coast.
For students, America's diversity can be a great advantage—it enriches the educational experience and offers opportunities to collaborate and problem-solve with people from different cultural backgrounds. When we can incorporate different viewpoints and experiences into our lives and our work, we are all stronger. Diversity provides students with skills necessary to flourish in the global economy.
For the past forty years, colleges have worked hard to make sure that their doors are open to students from all backgrounds. Consequently, admissions policies that promote diversity have provided opportunities to countless numbers of college students. In 2003, the Supreme Court agreed that those efforts are critical, in a case regarding the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy, which promotes all forms of diversity in its student body, including racial and ethnic. In that case, the Court re-emphasized that "the nation's future depends upon leaders trained through wide exposure to the ideas...of students as diverse as this Nation of many peoples."
But the principles underlying that decision are now being challenged. As students head back to school this fall, the Supreme Court will weigh in on the admissions policy adopted by the University of Texas. If the Court strikes down the University's admissions policy, the decision could negatively impact students in both Texas and across the country.
Student activists across the country are mobilizing to not let this happen. The venerable United States Students Association is leading the charge and has created this public petition underscoring the critical importance of campus diversity. Join your name to the call today and spread the word to friends, family and your Facebook and Twitter communities.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned in the many tributes to (and screeds about) Alexander Cockburn I've read since his unexpected death on July 20 was his unmitigated support of interns, and specifically, his singular tendency to open up his coveted column inches to the work of young, untried researchers, giving them valuable exposure and a clip that, back in the pre-Internet days, was a valuable asset in getting future work in what was then called the alternative media.
I was Alex's intern in 1990 and in June of that month he asked me what I thought he should write about for his next column. (And I should mention that Alex was not being lazy here—he never had trouble coming up with column topics.) I mentioned something about how the FBI Cointelpro program to surveil and undermine domestic dissidents was still relevant and that parallels could be drawn from the repression of the Black Panther Party (something I'd written a paper on for a senior history seminar months earlier) to the spying on militant environmental activists associated with EarthFirst!, who were then staging a radical civil disobedience campaign called Redwood Summer.
Alex liked the idea and asked me if I'd like to draft the column, a task I took up with equal parts excitement and terror. But I managed to hammer something out, which Alex graciously and over-generously complimented. He then added some inimitable style points, a narrative about picking up some hitch-hikers and an unrelated but characteristic swipe at Vaclav Havel and published the 1,500 word column, warmly crediting me for the research and writing. This was something he did frequently with his interns, and it demonstrated a respect for our ideas that, at least in my case, helped instill a critical confidence that was invaluable when attempting the leap from intern to professional.
Here's that column, originally published in the July 2, 1990, issue of The Nation. I think it still stands up, and one can draw a straight line from the column's reporting to the current surveillance of Muslim Americans. (The column also demonstrates Alex's reverence for history, something I always appreciated about his work.)
As a fellow former Cockburn intern, Mike Tomasky, eloquently wrote at the Daily Beast, numerous Nation writers at the time were extremely supportive of interns and always appreciative of the work we did. They included Christopher Hitchens, the great Andy Kopkind, who was felled way too young by cancer in 1994, and the kindly Marxist Polish-French European correspondent Daniel Singer. But Alex was unique in providing his actual column space for our work. For that, and for taking my callow ideas seriously, I'll always be grateful.
When filmmaker and activist Annie Leonard set out in 2007 to share what she'd learned about the way we make, use and discard our "stuff," she thought 50,000 hits would be a great audience for her "twenty-minute cartoon about trash." Four years later, more than 15 million people had watched Leonard's video, "The Story of Stuff," making it the most watched environmental video of all time.
In early 2011, Leonard released "The Story of Citizens United," the best short history of the growth of corporate power I've ever read, heard or seen.
She followed that up with "The Story of Broke," an eight-minute animated movie that directly challenged those who argue that America is penniless and incapable of paying its bills, let alone making investments in a more sustainable and fair economy.
Now, Leonard is back with "The Story of Change," a powerful and typically informed polemic imploring viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizenship to help build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world.
Faced with daunting environmental and social problems with few easy solutions, many progressives resignedly conclude that the best they can do to influence change is to buy green or fair-trade products. In her new video, Leonard lauds conscious consumerism but rightly calls it a great place to start, but a terrible place to stop.
The six-minute film features an inspiring exploration of what effective changemaking has looked like through history—from Gandhi to the civil rights movement to the victories of the early environmental movement. It spotlights the elements found whenever and wherever people unite to make change: a big idea, a commitment to working together, and the ability and patience to turn that idea and commitment into meaningful action.
What's striking about the movements Leonard highlights is that they all pushed fundamental change and they often did so while a majority of the population, as measured by public opinion polls and punditry, was arrayed against them, as Sami Grover makes clear in a good post at TreeHugger.
After watching, share the video with friends, family and your Facebook and Twitter communities; consider donating to the project and check out the "Story of Change" resource page for more info and tips on getting involved.
This morning came the unfortunate news that after a confidential two-year review, the Boy Scouts of America has emphatically reaffirmed its policy of excluding both gay youth and gay troop leaders.
The Boy Scouts' chief executive, Bob Mazzuca, defended the policy, contending that most Scout families support the policy: "The vast majority of the parents of youth we serve value their right to address issues of same-sex orientation within their family, with spiritual advisers and at the appropriate time and in the right setting," Mazzuca told ABC. "We fully understand that no single policy will accommodate the many diverse views among our membership or society."
Since at least 2000, the Boy Scouts have been targeted with numerous protest campaigns and run afoul of several local nondiscrimination laws because of its long-standing membership policy, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000 in a 5-4 decision and has remained hotly contested ever since.
One of the most well-known protest campaigns highlighted the discrimination faced by Jennifer Tyrrell, an Ohio mother of a 7-year-old Cub Scout who was unceremoniously ousted as a Scout den mother because of her sexual preference.
In an eloquent petition letter, Tyrrell detailed her work as a den mother and called for an end to blatant discrimination in an organization that has an enormous influence on the lives of many children, especially those living outside of major urban areas.
Join more than 300,000 fellow concerned citizens who have added their name to Tyrrell's call. The petition is meant to be delivered to the Scouts' national headquarters in Irving, Texas, this week, so don't delay. After you've weighed in, share this post with tour friends, family and Facebook and Twitter communities.
This Saturday, the legendary populist troubadour Woody Guthrie would have turned 100. Guthrie, best known for his iconic song "This Land Is Your Land," has had as profound an influence as perhaps any musician in US, and perhaps world, history.
Born a hundred years ago on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma, Guthrie wrote hundreds of folk songs and countless ballads, as well as some beloved children's music, and became a decisive influence on innumerable musicians, most famously Bob Dylan. The "People's Bard" is rightly remembered as a transformative musician and song writer whose political activism and consistent advocacy for civil rights and economic equality, especially at the height of McCarthyism, inspired many others to stand tall and fight back. He scrawled "This Machine Kills Fascists" on his guitar, and he meant it.
This centennial occasion is being marked coast to coast with concerts, conferences and countless celebrations. Check out this national schedule of events and watch the videos below as a tribute to the man whose legacy includes some of the most powerful protest songs ever written.
1. Bound for Glory performed by Tom Morello, Graham Nash, Nora Guthrie, Jack Elliott, Jackson Browne and friends (adapted; origin unknown.)
2. Plane Wreck/Deportees performed by Joan Baez
3. Pastures of Plenty performed by Woody Guthrie
4. This Land is Your Land performed by Bruce Springsteen
5. Union Maid performed by Billy Bragg & Dar Wlliams
6. Do Re Mi performed by Ry Cooder
7. Pretty Boy Floyd performed by Woody Guthrie
8. Hard Travelin' performed by Bob Dylan
9. Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad performed by the Grateful Dead
10. The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done performed by Woody Guthrie
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Woody wrote the lyrics to this song and many years later, Jeff Tweedy added the music as part of Wilco's Mermaid Avenue collaboration with Billy Bragg.
At My Window Sad and Lonely performed by Wilco & Billy Bragg
Honorable Mention: "Mail Myself to You," "Union Burying Ground," "Jesus Christ," "Please Mr. Roosevelt," "Ludlow Massacre," "Song of the Grand Coulee Dam."
This Saturday, the legendary populist troubadour Woody Guthrie would have turned 100. Best known for his iconic song "This Land is Your Land," Guthrie's influence was as profoundly felt as any musician in US, and perhaps world, history.
The occasion is rightly being marked coast to coast with concerts, conferences and countless celebrations. Check out this national schedule of events, watch the videos below to see two of my favorite cover versions of Guthrie's most famous song and watch this space on Saturday for a proper musical tribute to the man whose legacy includes some of the most powerful political songs, ballads and improvised works ever written.
Josh Fox's 2010 documentary Gasland is an extraordinarily important film. Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance, where it premiered, Gasland, virtually on its own, helped expose an imminent threat to our drinking water and local environments. Detailing the gripping and awful story of how fracking became the dominant technology in US gas production, the film does an excellent job explaining exactly what hydraulic fracturing is and why it's such a mortal threat.
Sadly, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a far-from-uncritical backer of the practice, failed to heed the film's essential message that there's no such thing as safe fracking. His proposal to permit fracking in counties in the southwest portion of the state, bordering Pennsylvania—Broome, Chenango, Steuben and Tioga counties—and only then in towns which agree to allow fracking—while banning the practice outright in Catskill Park, in aquifer areas, and in national designated historic districts, sounds, at first blush, like a compromise, but it actually puts New York State's poorest and most vulnerable communities in the most peril and gives the gas industry much of what it wants.
Fox's follow-up to Gasland, The Sky Is Pink, directly takes on Cuomo and shows exactly why his proposal is so regressive and dangerous. Called the "best 18-minute video ever made," by Greenpeace's Kevin Grandia, the new mini-doc reveals a slew of industry documents detailing serious concerns about well safety and water contamination and accessibly unpacks the increasing body of research, from both academics and intergovernmental agencies, that convincingly demontrates that expanding the use of natural gas will do nothing to prevent climate change.
Most impressively, the film offers an easy primer for people who have no idea what fracking is, while still offering engaging material for those steeped in the issue, making the video an ideal organizing tool. See for yourself and then share this post with friends, family and your Facebook and Twitter communities.
What to do? A good first step is to implore your reps to support the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act. The legislation aims to repeal the exemption for hydraulic fracturing in the Safe Drinking Water Act. It would require the energy industry to disclose the chemicals it pumps underground in the hydraulic fracturing process, information that has been protected as trade secrets.
Can you imagine having to deal with this in high-school?
Illegal, an independent documentary film financed by Houston philanthropist Curry Glassell, captures the plight of four undocumented students who through no fault of their own find themselves in a dead-end situation because of their migratory status. Eddy, Eric, Leti and Mario were brought to the United States by their parents as children and interviews with these children, human rights activists, policymakers, nonprofit leaders, educators and members of the clergy help personalize the debate over illegal immigration and underscore the importance of full immigration reform, beginning with the Dream Act.
Though an important step was taken with President Obama's recent order to halt the deportations of some young undocumented residents, what's necessary is a law that provides a path to full citizenship for these young people.
Watch and share this beautiful and poignant video with your friends, family and Twitter and Facebook communities and learn how to help undocumented immigrants obtain legal rights.
As the latest negotiation text circulated through the halls of Rio Centro yesterday, environmentalists' moods quickly soured. Despite a late-night negotiating session, the revised text removes many of the important issues civil society has deemed essential.
Numerous NGOs quickly expressed their disappointment, including World Wildlife Foundation Director General Jim Leape, who called the text "a colossal failure of leadership and vision", and assailed diplomats who "should be embarrassed at their inability to find common ground on such a crucial issue" and Greenpeace's Kumi Naidoo, who called Rio+20 an "an epic failure."
In protest this morning, youth activists and civilian delegates at Rio+20 came together to publicly oppose and critique the official agenda, and to offer alternative directions. In a statement titled "The Future We Don't Want," young people and NGOs urge the government of Brazil, the UN Sustainable Development Conference Secretary General and all member states to stop negotiating their short-term national agendas and to urgently agree on transitional actions for global sustainable progress. (You can sign and share the statement here.)
Back in the US, as world leaders decamped to Rio for the Earth Summit, the group 350.org assembled a digital army to ask each and every member of Congress a simple question, "Do you support ending subsidies to the fossil fuel industry?" Join this open-source campaign to end fossil fuel subsidies and contact your elected reps and find out where your Congressperson stands on the issue.


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Cloud-based Call Center Capability Combined with Unified Communications Drives Results
March 28, 2012
The demand for the hosted call center continues to grow as companies recognize the value in driving their own customer service care without the expensive build out of the physical call center. Likewise, the demand for unified communications creates a unique opportunity for those companies able to meet the demand for seamless integration.
Interactive Intelligence (News - Alert) (ININ) is working to be that provider, offering the Customer Interaction Center (CIC). The latest CIC Version 4.0 recently completed IP telephony testing for the Microsoft (News - Alert) Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program. Now, the ININ CIC is assured for seamless integration with the Microsoft Lync Server 2010.
According to this CFO World release, ININ launched the first Windows-based all-in-one communications software suite in 1997. The company's relationship with Microsoft was first certified in 2004 when ININ became a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In 2008, the company added the title of Microsoft Independent Software Vendor.
"Since its inception, Interactive Intelligence has demonstrated its ability to consistently meet the most stringent Microsoft product and partnership standards," said Kapil Sharma, principal group program manager, Lync Partner Engineering Team at Microsoft Corp., in the CFO release.
As a result of this certification, CIC 4.0 will ensure customers can access the Quick Start Guide for installation, setup and configuration; enterprise-class audio to ensure scalability, reliability and quality; documented support between ININ and Microsoft; and release notes related to any known issues.
"We have a large number of customers running previous versions of our software integrated with Lync Server 2010, and now with this latest testing completed, our customers are once again assured that they're receiving a high-quality solution with direct access to joint support," said Interactive Intelligence chief marketing officer, Joe Staples (News - Alert).
Mid- to large-sized organizations gain access to next-generation cloud-based call centers to enjoy multichannel routing, call and screen recording, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), outbound dialing, reporting, Web self-service, workforce management, knowledge and email auto response management and customer feedback surveys managed through automation.
Now, CIC and Lync Server 2010 users can communicate by video call, Lync instant message or phone with a single interface, delivering a true, unified communications experience that drives even more value within the cloud-based call center environment.
To learn more about how ININ may be able to change your environment, check out this event: Cloud-based Contact Center and Unified Communications: Is it Right for Your Business?
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Beatles Electroniques, 1969
The relationship and eventual marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, looked at from a slightly unusual perspective, can be seen as an alliance between the high pop mastery of the Beatles and the playful avant-garde methods of the Fluxus group. Ono was obviously one of the major Fluxus artists of the day, and in taking up with her Lennon exposed himself to avant-garde art in a particularly intimate way—and vice versa.
It would be a stretch to say that the Beatles were authentic pioneers of electronic music, but at the same time it couldn't be clearer that McCartney and Co.'s relentless experimental incursions into the medium of pop music had an enormous effect on what was regarded as "in bounds" for rock music. The introduction of feedback on "I Feel Fine," the use of reversed tape loops in "Tomorrow Never Knows," the maelstrom of nonsense in "Revolution 9," the symphonic collision of melody in "A Day in the Life," and so on. In 1967 McCartney contributed a 14-minute tape loop composition called "Carnival of Light" to an awesome-sounding event called the The Million Volt Light and Sound Rave that has never reached the public even to this day (Harrison and George Martin loathed the piece; Harrison vetoed releasing it every chance he got). Meanwhile, Harrison himself made a key contribution to the canon of electronic music with the release of his second album, titled simply Electronic Sound, in 1969; the album consisted solely of two loooooooong Moog compositions, as my colleague Ron Kretsch ably explained on DM a few months back. Of course, Lennon himself was burrowing into weirdo musique concrete with Yoko, in various releases like Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions, Two Virgins, and Wedding Album.
Once dubbed "The Artist Who Invented Video Art," Nam June Paik was an incredibly prolific and amusing conceptual artist from Korea in the postwar era; he is most associated with his works incorporating the cathode ray tube (we usually call it a TV set), including "TV-Buddha," "TV Chair," and "Family of Robot," the last of which is essentially a series of robots made out of TV sets. Earlier in his career Paik was associated with John Cage, particularly his notorious 1960 work "Etude for Piano," which culminated in Paik cutting off Cage's necktie and washing Cage's hair with shampoo.
The Beatles, 1969
In 1969 Paik teamed up with Fluxus-associated filmmaker Jud Yalkut to create Beatles Electroniques, a three-minute video in which Beatles footage is messed with electronically. I would argue that Beatles Electroniques is an essential proto-Plunderphonics text. I'm tempted to call it the first important Plunderphonics work in everything but name—the term "Plunderphonics" was coined by composer John Oswald in 1985 to describe works stretching back no earlier than the 1970s. Oswald's key recordings include the Plunderphonics EP (1988) and the Plunderphonics album (1989). Key inheritors of the Plunderphonics style are Negativland and Christian Marclay. The Residents fucked with Beatles source material in The Beatles play The Residents and The Residents play The Beatles, but that was fully eight years after Beatles Electroniques.
Nam June Paik
As Barbara London's essay "Looking at Music" described it in the volume Rewind, Play, Fast Forward: The Past, Present and Future of the Music Video,
In October 1965, Paik screened his first videotapes as part of a series of "happening nights" at the Greenwich Village nightclub Cafe au Go Go—a venue that included Lenny Bruce and the Grateful Dead among its roster of performers. … Beatles Electroniques, 1966-69, made with the experimental filmmaker Jud Yalkut, is nothing less than an early black-and-white music video. Paik grabbed bits from the mock documentary A Hard Day's Night (directed by Richard Lester in 1964), refilming and further distorting the footage through his video synthesizer (developed with engineer Shuya Abe). Snippets of the Beatles' faces are caught in a loop of warped abstraction. To accompany the endlessly folding imagery, Paik created a sound track with Kenneth Lerner, which featured fragmented Beatles songs recited again and again. Whereas the original film is an upbeat paean to Beatlemania, Paik's strategies of appropriation and repetition are conceptually closer to Andy Warhol's silk-screened paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, 1962, and Steve Reich's phasing of spoken words from a publicized racial incident in his sound composition Come Out (1966). Like these works, Beatles Electroniques brought seriality into the realm of sensory overload.
Nobody seems to know what these "fragmented Beatles songs" actually are, so transformed are they in Paik and Yalkut's work. Without further ado, here's Beatles Electroniques:


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Working Out at Home
If you enjoy exercising by yourself at home, you're not alone. The home fitness industry is booming; Americans spend close to $1.7 billion on home equipment every year. Although working out at home can be both convenient and effective, the dropout rate for home exercisers is very high. So before purchasing a home gym, consider the following questions:
Will your roommates and/or family support your scheduled exercise time and not bother you?
Are you disciplined and motivated enough to exercise alone at regularly scheduled times?
Do you know how to exercise properly, and are you fully aware of the proper techniques for using home fitness equipment?
Evaluating exercise equipment
After you've made the decision to work out at home, the most important consideration is to be realistic about buying your equipment. Too many people purchase expensive exercise bikes or treadmills, work out on them for a few weeks and then use them for hanging clothes. Before making any substantial investment in a piece of equipment — whether it's a bike, treadmill, stair climber or skiing machine — try out a similar device at a health club or gym for a month or two (using a guest pass or a temporary membership) to make sure it can hold your interest for 30 minutes or more. Some manufacturers also offer a free trial period.
The other important factors to consider are how well the machine functions and how it holds up over time. Avoid cheaper models by lesser-known companies — a well-made, leading brand will be worth the extra cost, because it should last for many years.
Other tips:
- Invest in a floor mat (available in sporting goods stores) for stretching exercises.
- If you plan to do strength training with free weights, adjustable-weight dumbbells with metal plates are the preferred choice, because they're easier to manage than barbells. If you prefer weight machines, your best bet is still a health club, which offers a variety that can't easily be matched in a home gym.
- If you have the room, try to set up an area exclusively for exercise. This added convenience will boost your motivation to work out.
- If you purchase an aerobic device for home use, don't rely exclusively on it. To make workouts less boring, mix some stationary aerobic exercise with some walking, running or cycling. (You can alternate days — or do 20 to 25 minutes of one activity, then switch to another.)
>Exercise bikes
The seat should be padded and adjustable. The bike should be able to challenge but not exhaust you, and it should ride smoothly and quietly. You should be able to vary the level of exercise easily. Recumbent bikes are good for people with lower back problems.
A quality unit should have 1.5 horsepower or more, and the deck size (minimum 25 inches wide and 65 inches long) should accommodate your walking and running stride. You should be able to vary the speed and incline easily, and the treadmill should run fairly quietly.
>Cross-country ski machines
The machine should have a solid construction, independent arm-lever action and a smooth sliding action. You should be able to easily adjust the resistance and the angle of incline without dismounting. The machines with bidirectional resistance are easier to use than the fly-wheel and pulley-type units.
>Stair climbers
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Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF - Get Report) got a lift in the extended session after the company said it turned a profit in its fiscal fourth quarter amid strong revenue from its digital, international and cable video-on-demand categories.
The company also said it was boosted in the latest quarter by lower theatrical promotional and advertising expenses, and an increase in equity interest income from the Epix cable channel, a joint venture with Viacom (VIA.B) and Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.
Lions Gate said it earned $46.1 million, or 33 cents a share, on revenue of $377 million in the three months ended March 31, up from a year-ago loss of $22.3 million, or 19 cents a share, on revenue of $401.6 million.
The stock was last quoted at $6.05, up 2%, on volume of less than 25,000, according to Nasdaq.com. Lions Gate shares were down almost 9% so far in 2011 based on a regular session close at $5.93.ARMOUR Residential
News of a dilutive stock offering weighed on shares of ARMOUR Residential (ARR - Get Report) in late trades on Tuesday with the stock slumping 4.3% to $7.31 on volume of more than 730,000. After the closing bell, the Vero Beach, Fla.-based real estate investment trust, which invests in residential mortgage-backed securities, said it's launched the sale of 16 million common shares. The deal also includes an overallotment option for the sale of an additional 2 million common shares. The stock is down 1.5% so far in 2011, and it has limited coverage on Wall Street. Only three analysts cover the shares with the ratings split evenly between strong buy, buy and hold.American Superconductor
Shares of American Superconductor (AMSC - Get Report) pulled back after the Devens, Mass.-based energy technology company delayed its financial results, and said it expects to reverse recognition of a "material" amount of revenue following a review of shipments sent to customers in China in the second, third and fourth quarters of fiscal 2010. The company also said it's cut 10% of its workforce since March 31, and that it's initiated a hiring freeze and reduced travel and discretionary spending in an effort to better align its cost structure with near-term revenue. The stock was last quoted at $10.12, down 5.3%, on volume of around 74,000, according to Nasdaq.com. Based on a regular session close at $10.69, the shares have already fallen almost 65% since the start of 2011. Two other stocks sold off late after the companies announced stock sale plans. Cheniere Energy (LNG - Get Report) said it's selling up to 10 million shares in its offering, while Inergy L.P. (NRGY - Get Report) is offering up to 10.35 million common units. Cheniere shares lost 9.5% to $10.60 with volume reaching more than 400,000, while Inergy shares dipped 3.3% to $35.85 on volume of nearly 43,000. -- Written by Michael Baron in New York.>To contact the writer of this article, click here: Michael Baron. >To submit a news tip, send an email to: firstname.lastname@example.com
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I have read a number of ways to roll and tip w/ awlgrip paint. I will try the following tech: A good approach is to roll the paint on in about a 2' x 2' square area. Roll out the paint in a big W and then re-roll the area to distribute all the paint evenly in the 2 foot square area. Roll horizontally, then tip vertically with a good unloaded 3" bristle brush.
My question is: when you move to the next 2 ft area, do you overlap on the last? if so, how much? do you tip off this area also? and, once you have the hull painted and have to move the stands, how do you blend these areas in w/ the rest of the hull? |
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Political newcomers Calvin Byrd and James Grogan were elected to the Dawsonville City Council Tuesday night.
4 p.m. Thursday at city hall
Glenda Ferguson said she was surprised no one wanted to speak at a recent public hearing on plans to consolidate the county's voting precincts.
6 p.m. Thursday at city hall
A time-honored European tradition comes to Dawsonville Dec. 12 with the Inaugural Dawson County European Pheasant Shoot at the Whitmire Farm on Goldmine Road.
While a meeting between lawmakers from Georgia, Florida and Alabama did not end the tri-state water wars last Wednesday morning, U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, R-Gainesville, said it was a start.
Consolidating Dawson County's eight polling locations will be the topic of discussion at a public hearing Friday morning.
In an effort to help offset costs at the Dawson County Humane Society, shelter volunteers have asked the county to consider charging pet owners a license fee.
With six candidates vying for two open seats, Dawsonville election officials aren't sure what to expect in the Nov. 3 City Council election.
Election officials on Monday decided to ask voters what they think about a plan to consolidate the county's polling places.
4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 at city hall
6 p.m. Thursday at city hall
Dawson is one of 21 Georgia counties approved for public assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Two members of the Dawson County Elections Board say the county's some 10,000 registered voters can be served by two precincts, one in town and another on the county's east side.
The Dawson County Board of Commissioners gave full support to a 1-mile walking trail proposed for Veterans Memorial Park during last week's meeting.
The county's newest elected officials will be sworn into office Tuesday at the Dawson County Government Center.
Newly appointed council member Caleb Phillips took his seat on the Dawsonville City Council, following a brief swearing-in ceremony on Monday at city hall.
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it seems that NOW() belongs in sql statements not in the array.
Yeah, that's basically it. The execute() call is used to bind values to the query - you can't pass it fragments of SQL. So you'd either need to change your query to INSERT INTO tb (session_id,timing) values (:session_id,NOW()) or just calculate the value in PHP. Or, as modi123_1 suggested, you could just set a default on the "timing" column and not specify a value at all. -
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Well, the error pretty much says it all - $db is not defined. You created it you "database handler" but you never bring it into scope in your class methods. You would need to reference it with a global $db declaration in each method to make that code work.
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<a href=\"download_file.php?uid=<?php{$row['upload_id']};?>\">{$row['file_name']}
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squibby, on 20 August 2013 - 09:50 PM, said:
I want the following output.
A UNION is not going to get you that format. Using a UNION will just lump together the results of two queries with the same result format into a single table. Something like your sample query would just give you a 3-column table with conflicting entries rather than the 4-column format you want.
The easiest method would be to just join on your users table twice using two different aliases. That will allow you to independently match different user rows against different columns. For example, something like this should work:
SELECT u1.user_real_name AS sentby, email_staff_log_message, u2.user_real_name AS sentto, email_staff_log_date_sent FROM email_staff_log, users AS u1, users AS u2 WHERE email_staff_log.userid = u1.user_id AND email_staff_log.email_staff_log_sent_to = u2.user_id
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adn258, on 09 August 2013 - 04:31 AM, said:
That said I'm assuming using just that wouldn't be foolproof since a hacker can keep the form keys in session, but I would assume this would slow things way down right?
It might slow things down a little and stop the really stupid bots, but you're correct - it is by no means fool-proof. In fact, if you're concerned about brute-force attacks on your login page, this is basically no protection at all. Just look at the top of the linked article - this meant as a defense against XSS and CSRF attacks. It's most relevant after the user has already logged in.
CTphpnwb, on 09 August 2013 - 06:34 AM, said:
This is why captchas are used.
The problem with captchas is that, even at their best, they offer a bad user experience and so should be used sparingly. Putting one on a login page is like a big thumb in the eye to users. They would be more appropriate for things like sign-up forms that are harder to protect in other ways. A better solution for brute-force login attempts is to simply block logins to the affected account for X minutes after Y failed login attempts. Simply put, you can't effectively brute-force an account if you only get, say, 10 tries per hour.
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Recently my father's grandpa showed me how he keeps track of his investments and financial documents. Rather than having separate file folders for each account and investment, he keeps all the documents in a three-ring binder. It puts all your information at your fingertips, letting you flip through all your financial data quickly. I loved the idea so much, I implemented it immediately. A brief description of mine follows.
My binder has five dividers: Bank Statements, Credit Cards, Stocks/Bonds, Mutual Funds and Investment Club.
In the Bank Statement section I keep my bank's statement and my own computer-generated reconciliation report. Under Credit Card I keep my credit-card statements and a hole-punched envelope to put receipts in.
Under Stocks and Bonds I keep a list of my savings bonds with the amount and serial numbers. I keep statements from my broker and dividend reinvestment plans here as well. Before each stock's statements I keep a ledger page that notes purchases I have made, current prices, fees, and reinvested dividend. This way I can always see that stock's worth at a glance and easily track its performance on one sheet. If you do this on the computer, you could put a printout in your binder occasionally. My mutual fund area contains similar ledgers and statements.
I have an Investment Club area to keep track of my investment club stock. You can add any dividers you wish, according to your needs. I keep my bills in the side pockets of the binder until they are paid, along with a book of stamps. At the beginning of the notebook I keep a graph showing my total retirement savings and my daughter's college savings. It is inspiring to see the numbers grow. You could do a sheet for any goal, such as vacation savings.
The notebook is easy to maintain, simply hole-punch your statements as you receive them, make notes on your ledger sheets and place them in the correct section with the most recent statement on top. With this system you won't misfile documents or have them get mixed up.
At the end of the year I will remove all the documents and place them in a manila envelope along with my tax return. Then I will store each year's envelope in a storage box. I hope this is of use to you, I think having one's finances organized encourages one to improve their spending and saving habits.
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Location of Missouri in the U.S. | |
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Founded | January 5, 1833 |
County Seat | Versailles |
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Address | Morgan County Courthouse 100 E Newton Street Versailles, MO 65084-1298 Phone: 573.378.5436 Morgan County Website |
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- See an interactive map of Morgan County border changes at N2Genealogy.
Record Loss
- The State Historical Society of Missouri has information on historical Missouri place names for all 114 Missouri Counties.
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xbl is powered by azure now so i don't get what you mean when you say upgrade.
Flexible meaning that it supports a large number of its own apps. MS cloud probably has one of the largest collection of 1st party apps already in the cloud(Bing, skype, office 365, etc) and still they are able to support xbox live which has the 45 million members. So it's scale has to be pretty huge to support that while still offering public support too.Quote:
Like Sufi said, what exactly do you mean when you say it's flexible? How is Azure already one of the more flexible ones out there?
Not even large services like netflix supports that many members. Not saying that MS is better but it's definitely one of the ones to watch out for in the future. AWS is still the biggest public cloud provider out there but others like google, MS, Rackspace aren't that far behind.


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